On entering the post-graduate courses at the Institute of Physiology of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Belarus Aliaksei Paulouski demanded to be provided with a place in the academy's dormitory. However, he was told that there were no places, as a result of which he had to live in a rented apartment, as well as many other post-graduate students.
The ideological pressurization is still growing in the Hrodna State University named after Yanka Kupala. Last week, on 8 October, the deans ordered lecturers to keep students in class rooms during the People's Assembly. In the beginning of this week it also became known about the expulsion of Tatsiana Kasataya, an activist of the civil movement “Tell The Truth!” from the post-graduate course.
On 15 September there started the trial of Dzmitry Kanavalau and Uladzislau Kavaliou, charged of exploding a bomb on the Kastrychnitskaya metro station on 11 April 2011. They are also suspected in explosions in Vitsebsk and Minsk in 2005 and 2008 and 30 more criminal episodes.
"We need to evaluate actions of pseudo-patriots", said Viktar Huminski, Deputy Chair of the House of Representatives. According to him, the Belarusian society "should do soul-searching” after yesterday's explosion at a Minsk metro station Kastrychnitskaya.
The Human Rights Center Viasna offers the most sincere condolence to the families of all victims of the terrorist act which took place in the Minsk metro on 11 April. We grieve together with our people that will yet have to realize what has happened and live through it. We hope and believe, that the perpetrators will be eventually punished, either by court or by God's hand.
The presidential candidate Yaraslau Ramanchuk has applied to the Minister of Internal Affairs Anatol Kuliashou, the KGB head Vadzim Zaitsau and the General Public Prosecutor Ryhor Vasilevich with a claim concerning the statements of the head of the Presidential Administration, Uladzimir Makei in his interview to RTR-Belarus TV-channel.
Traditional festival Battle of Orsha was to take place near Orsha town at night of 5-6 September. The festival is traditionally held at Krapiuna Field, the historic place of the Battle of Orsha in 1514, where the army of the Great Duchy of Lithuania (predecessor of Belarus) defeated the Russian army. Police officers said a mine had been found on the field and didn’t allow people to come there.
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